xxxii Regulations for the Poultry Department. 



EEGULATIONS FOR THE POULTKY DEPARTMENT. 



1. Members of the Society to pay 2s. M., and non-members 5s. on each pen. 



2. A pen shall consist of one Cock and one Hen, one Gander and one Goose, 

 or one Drake and one Duck. 



3. Carriage must in all cases be paid by the Exhibitor. 



4. All pens will be disqualified if the plumage of the birds shall have been 

 trimmed, removed, or otherwise tampered with. 



5. Proper persons will be appointed by the Society to attend to and feed the 

 birds sent without a servant in charge. 



6. After the Show, the Society's men only will be allowed to remove the 

 birds from the pens, and place them in the baskets. 



7. When the owners may desire to have their poultry returned to them by 

 railway, they must state so in their Certificate, and duly address the back of 

 the direction-card, so that it may only require to be turned over, in which 

 cases the signatures of the railway servants, acknowledging their receipt, will 

 be sufficient. 



8. In the case of poultry sold and sent by railway, the Society will not 

 undertake to do more than deliver to the railway vans, and to take the receipt 

 of the Company's servants for the same. 



9. In no case will the Society be responsible for the safety of either the 

 birds or the packages. 



10. A charge of ten per cent, will be made on all sales effected through the 

 Society. 



11. The Society Avill not be responsible for any accident that may occur 

 through any bird exhibited at the Show, and it shall be a condition of entry 

 that each Exhibitor shall hold the Society harmless, and indemnify it againsl. 

 any legal proceedings arising from any such accident. 



12. The Society will not in any case, or under any circumstances, hold itself 

 responsible for any loss, damage, or mis-delivery of poultry, or other article 

 exhibited at tlie Society's Show. 



Tlie Judges Avill be instructed to take especial notice of tlio ages and morils 

 of chickens when competing with adult birds. 



